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      The new widgets have more to offer than a mere combination of the
      features of <a class="link" href="GtkOptionMenu.html" title="GtkOptionMenu"><span class="type">GtkOptionMenu</span></a> and <a class="link" href="GtkCombo.html" title="GtkCombo"><span class="type">GtkCombo</span></a>. Notable new features 
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<td><p><span class="term">Grid mode</span></p></td>
<td><p>Sometimes it is preferable to display the available
            options not in a linear list, but in a grid. A typical example 
            would be a "color combo" where the individual items are small 
	    square color swatches. The new widgets support gridded display 
            with the functions 
            <a class="link" href="GtkComboBox.html#gtk-combo-box-set-wrap-width" title="gtk_combo_box_set_wrap_width ()"><code class="function">gtk_combo_box_set_wrap_width()</code></a>, 
            <a class="link" href="GtkComboBox.html#gtk-combo-box-set-row-span-column" title="gtk_combo_box_set_row_span_column ()"><code class="function">gtk_combo_box_set_row_span_column()</code></a> and 
            <a class="link" href="GtkComboBox.html#gtk-combo-box-set-column-span-column" title="gtk_combo_box_set_column_span_column ()"><code class="function">gtk_combo_box_set_column_span_column()</code></a>.
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<td><p><span class="term">Display of icons</span></p></td>
<td><p>An often-heard complaint about <a class="link" href="GtkOptionMenu.html" title="GtkOptionMenu"><span class="type">GtkOptionMenu</span></a> is that 
          the icons which appear in the image menu items in its menu are not
	  displayed in the button showing the selected item. This limitation
          has been removed in <a class="link" href="GtkComboBox.html" title="GtkComboBox"><span class="type">GtkComboBox</span></a>; the selected item appears in the 
          same way as the options in the popup.
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<td><p><span class="term">Full tree model power</span></p></td>
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            Since the new widgets are built around the same models that are
            used for <a class="link" href="GtkTreeView.html" title="GtkTreeView"><span class="type">GtkTreeView</span></a>, all of the powerful machinery of tree models 
            and cell renderers can be used.
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